Now, it looks to me like a flu variant. People die from the flu every year. I doubt that this year will be any different.
FWIW, I don't get vaccinated, neither does Mrs WBill. I don't, primarily because the three years that I've been vaccinated (once in college, twice for where I worked) ...I was miserably sick all winter. Didn't get the flu, but got every single thing that came down the pike.
As a physician who has seen a lifetime of suffering, I have this advice: GET YOUR FLU SHOT THIS FALL!
Whatever sickness you may have had...nothing, and I mean NOTHING can prepare you for a killer flu save a flu shot.
I’m as conservative as you and I’m NOT kidding...